O/T:- Defund the bbc.

[Psaw]

There is a twitter campaign on twitter, join up.

[MODERATOR NOTE: Please remember to add the 'O/T:-' prefix to your post title. It designates your post as off-topic, i.e. non-football related, clearly in the main list Roger, there's a good chap.

[Psaw]

Ok, remember, no more Victoria Derbyshire, the sewing bee, or the COMMUNIST TAX.

[SwalePie]

Ok, remember, no more Victoria Derbyshire, the sewing bee, or the COMMUNIST TAX.

Sounds fair. Deal.

[Elite_Pie]

There is a twitter campaign on twitter, join up.

The twitter campaign is on twitter? Thanks for making that clear.

I'll give it a miss.

[sidders]

Let's have broadcasting that puts us on a par with the US - lots more adverts and Fox-style news. Let's have less of quality programmes like The A Word, Normal People and next week's drama-doc on the Salisbury Poisonings.
Lots of ladies love 'The Sewing Bee' and I'm generous enough to forego some of my licence revenue for their enjoyment. Do you think the quality of investigative journalism developed by the Beeb would survive in a Murdoch universe? Not flucking likely.

[Evesham Pie]

I think the key issue for many is the BBC being held up as the shining light of objective reporting, when in reality they are no different these days from the rest.

[sidders]

I think the key issue for many is the BBC being held up as the shining light of objective reporting, when in reality they are no different these days from the rest.

You don't know what you're talking about. All over the planet the BBC is respected as the closest a media organisation can get to objective truth in world news.
Ask Naga Munchetty or Emily Maitlis about 'the impartiality clause'.
The BBC is committed to supporting the monarchy, social justice and social mobility. What's wrong with that?
Did you see the recent BBC exposee on Amazon? Do you think the Daily Mail or the Sun or the Torygraph would do investigations like that?

[Evesham Pie]

You don't know what you're talking about. Ask Naga Munchetty or Emily Maitlis about 'the impartiality clause'. The BBC is committed to supporting the monarchy, social justice and social mobility. What's wrong with that?

So I'm not allowed an opinion then?

Having an impartiality clause doesn't make an organisation impartial. Still far too many journalists pushing for a gotcha moment, and presenting opinion without covering the objective facts of a situation. For me its not been the politics but the way the virus has been reported that has grated. Always looking to present the biggest, baddest numbers and often overlooking the encouraging trends in figures which to me are equally important to report. And to still be saying XXX people died today on the news at 10, when its reported deaths, some of which go back a couple of months, is beyond me. You'd have thought they'd have grasped this by now, after all its only been 12 weeks since lockdown.

Every broadcaster does it, but I'd prefer if the BBC recognised what they have become, clause or no clause, and stopped pretending they are still behaving as they did in the 50's.

I could go on.

[sidders]

So I'm not allowed an opinion then?

Having an impartiality clause doesn't make an organisation impartial. Still far too many journalists pushing for a gotcha moment, and presenting opinion without covering the objective facts of a situation. For me its not been the politics but the way the virus has been reported that has grated. Always looking to present the biggest, baddest numbers and often overlooking the encouraging trends in figures which to me are equally important to report. And to still be saying XXX people died today on the news at 10, when its reported deaths, some of which go back a couple of months, is beyond me. You'd have thought they'd have grasped this by now, after all its only been 12 weeks since lockdown.

Every broadcaster does it, but I'd prefer if the BBC recognised what they have become, clause or no clause, and stopped pretending they are still behaving as they did in the 50's.

I could go on.

Where did I say you weren't entitled to an opinion?

[BigFatPie]

Yeah the BBC is sh!t. For example my son has been distracted by their Bitesize education programmes while school has been shut. He could have spent that time on his PlayStation, or watching stuff about tiger loonies on Netflix.

Defund it because it doesn’t reassure right wing retards that they were in actual fact right about Brexit, the virus, and being massive racists.